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Mongoloid

noun

A member of the Mongoloid race.

A person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense).

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"Mongoloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scythians. The last opinion found great favour with the learned, as long as they could believe that the sphinxes discovered by Mariette represented Apophis or one of his predecessors. As a matter of fact, these monuments present all the characteristics of the Mongoloid type of countenance—the small and slightly oblique eyes, the arched but somewhat flattened nose, the pronounced cheekbones and well-covered jaw, the salient chin and full lips slightly depressed at the corners.** These peculiarities are also observed ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... analysis of European man, add only this, that ever since the old 'Sarmatian' sea shrank to its present dimensions and left the grasslands open between Tienshan and the Carpathians, there has been a steady westward movement of Mongoloid folk until a strong enough Muscovy was interposed; and that along the Northern Woodland also there has been westward movement, slower but no less persistent; and it will be clear that it is not to race that we have to look for any uniform basis ...

— The Unity of Civilization • Various

Words linked to "Mongoloid" : Mongol, idiot, mongolism, Mongoloid race, cretin, retard, moron, imbecile, anthropology, Asiatic, changeling, Asian, Mongolia, half-wit